Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on purchasing mobile telephones for staff in his Department for work-related business in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by grade; if his Department has a contract with a mobile telephone company (details supplied) to supply mobile telephones if needed; if so, the name of the company; the date on which the contract for the supply of mobile telephones to his Department is next due to expire; and the robust steps taken to ensure that the costs incurred on work related telephones are the best value for the taxpayer. [47924/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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My Department awarded a Mobile Voice and Data contract to Vodafone in September 2016 procured through an Office of Government Procurement (OGP) Framework, using a Supplementary Response Framework Tender.  My Department is currently preparing to undertake a competitive tendering process in conjunction with the OGP again for our voice and data services, the contract for which is now due for renewal.

Met Éireann has a two-year drawn down contract in place with Three Ireland, under the OGP mobile phone services framework. The contract is due to expire on 31/10/2020 with an option to extend for a further two years.

The amounts spent on purchasing mobile phones for staff for work-related business in each of the years 2016 to date is as follows:

Historical information regarding the grade levels of mobile phone recipients is not available, however, the numbers of staff with mobile phones broken down by grades in 2019 are: